TCX looks nice mate. Good to see my RH shifter will go to good use with the 1x10 setup.

Some minor cockpit adjustments on my Felt CXA. Took it out to a very dry and dusty Gap Creek and tested some different tyre pressures. The Brisbane area is a tinderbox at the moment, need a shower or two to green things up abit.

Rob, if you are riding that sort of single track maybe grab a quick release seat post clamp? Makes dropping the saddle easy and the tight corners coming off a slope or a hill much more fun than going over the bars. Maybe just me but I find youl get more out of your bike as you start your off tar ride drop your height, finish your ride raise to normal and ride home.

mitchy_ wrote:would love to take one of mine up to gap creek one day. i've never been there, how much is actually rideable on a CX?

I rode all the trails there last weekend - sure some were slower going than others. But other than strict downhill trails, I reckon any single track is rideable on a CX bike. Even with my amatuer skills

baabaa wrote:Rob, if you are riding that sort of single track maybe grab a quick release seat post clamp? Makes dropping the saddle easy and the tight corners coming off a slope or a hill much more fun than going over the bars. Maybe just me but I find youl get more out of your bike as you start your off tar ride drop your height, finish your ride raise to normal and ride home.

Yeah good idea I'll have to find one. I'd love to get a dropper post - it's on the wish list one day. I used to ride MTB a little bit so I'm okay riding with the current setup. I've only had one stack in a rock garden where the front wheel got jammed and I went OTB. Lower seat position might not have helped me with that one.

I have taken mine on single tracks in Bayview conservation park in the redlands.. The fast sections were more fun on the CX bike but prefer the 29er for getting over obstacles... Having said that it was the first weekend with the CX bike so I was a bit cautious

“Some say he isn’t machine washable, and all his potted plants are called ‘Steve’.

I try to ride Gap creek a couple a times a month, my fav is South Boundary trail to Nebo on the Cx, I find on most trails I can keep up with the Mtb guys, you just need to choose your line and always be on a look out for what's up ahead.

beginning to think the plain carbon wheels look a bit boring... my other wheels with logo's seem to look a bit nicer.tried some pinstriping tape in a "random" fashion.. however i think it appeared better in my head, i dont think i like it. perhaps i should have used it a little more sparingly.

I think you need to do the rear wheel before you can properly tell what it'll look like complete... I dont think it looks overly bad. I can't help but feeling that it might look better if it was a bit more uniform, rather than "random" as you say.

Rights here's one of mine. Mainly because it has some new wheels as a result of a financial arrangement with XLR8 Wheels.

It's the Ghettograveller. Start with an early noughties Giant Cypress hybrid frame, an alloy fork from a Scott CX bike (more on that later). a Salsa Woodchopper bar and some bodged 1x10 MTB gearing...and some flash new wheels because the old ones experienced a case of mechanical grumpiness!

The levers are TRP Ergo's. The flat bar shifter is a bodge. I had it and the x9 rear derailleur. Still haven't got around to sourcing a bar end and probably won't since it actually works really well. SRAM brifters were same problem - too expensive or hard to find. I'll run this to demolition and....think of something else!

singlespeedscott wrote:Nice vid. Note the common sense saddle to bar height. None of that, I've got to look "pro" with slammed stem and stupid, I've got no control offroad, saddle to bar drop.

There's no control in technical stuff with your hands stretched out on the hoods. In the drops is where it's at. You can't get into them if your saddle to bar drop is to much.

That's because his saddle is so low... fine for doing tricky stuff for a video, but if you actually wanted to ride fast and make power with out having to stand all the time you would raise your saddle a fair bit. Point is that is mtb terrain, not CX, you would be destroying rims and fixing flats non stop.

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